'I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I've read in years. It's
likely the best memoir published in years.' Darin Strauss, author
of Half a Life and Chang and Eng From the bestselling author of
Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a shocking, big-hearted
memoir about his bizarre upbringing in California in the 1970s and
how he survived it. Glen David Gold grew up rich on the beaches of
1970s California, until his father lost a fortune and his parents
divorced when he was ten. Glen and his English mother moved to San
Francisco, where she was fleeced by a series of charming con men
and turned increasingly wayward. When he was twelve, she took off
for New York without telling him, leaving him to fend for himself.
On midnight streets and at drug-fuelled parties, wise-cracking his
way through an alarming adult world, Glen watched his mother's
countless, wild attempts to reinvent herself. In this exceptional
memoir, acclaimed novelist Glen David Gold captures his bizarre,
lonely upbringing and how it shaped him as an adult with stunning
insight and unsparing candour. Shocking, mordantly funny and
achingly affecting, he tells an unforgettable story of the years he
spent trying to rescue his mother - and his ultimate realisation
that only by breaking free could he ever hope to be complete. 'The
prose is crystalline, hard as real diamonds, flashing, revealing.
The story is simple, just a boy and his mother's long
disintegration, but the journey is darkly complicated,
heartbreaking, beautiful as hell.' Mark Childress, author of Crazy
in Alabama
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